Part Two:
The Nahum Factor
by
Damien F. Mackey
“Human history is in need of a massive
renovation!”
That is what I wrote in Part One of this title:
Whilst I had well known of the biblical Jew,
Nehemiah, at the time of the Persian empire, in BC time, I marvelled at
learning more recently that there was supposed to have been another Jew of that
very name, Nehemiah, still operating under Persian auspices, and still in
Jerusalem, at the time of the Prophet Mohammed (Muhammad), in AD time.
This only supported me in my belief that
“Mohammed” was not a true historical character.
I have since written the set:
Biography of the Prophet Mohammed
(Muhammad) Seriously Mangles History
and:
Biography of the Prophet Mohammed (Muhammad) Seriously Mangles History.
Part Two: From Birth to Marriage
there arguing, especially in Part Two, that Mohammed was, at least for the phase of his life from birth to marriage, a biblical
composite – based on various biblical characters, such as Jephthah; David; but
especially Job/Tobias. For Job as Tobias, son of Tobit, see my:
Job's Life and Times
This latter biblical material was to exert an
enormous influence on the literature of other nations. See e.g. my:
Similarities to The
Odyssey of the Books of Job and Tobit
Job-like characters can also be found in ancient
Babylonian and Egyptian literature.
For another example of an Islamic mangling of
history, see my:
Dr. Norman Simms of the University of Waikato sent me a copy of this book,
asking me to write a review of it. This, my review, was originally published in
his publication, The Glozel Newsletter, No. 5:1 (ns), 1999, pp. 1-17. The
following is a modified version of this.
How did
this historical mish-mash come about?
I wrote in my Osman’s series that:
…
one should nevertheless expect the chronological earthquake caused by [Dr.
Immanuel] Velikovsky [Ages in Chaos] to
be still transmitting aftershocks right down the line, so as to plunge late BC
events into an AD time frame.
And,
indeed, a start has already been made to apply a Velikovskian revolution to AD
time as well. Thus certain Velikovskians, acutely aware of the problems
posed by convention for the securing of BC time, have now begun also to
question the AD matrix, especially the so-called ‘Dark Age’ period.
To
my mind, one of the great achievements of Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky in his
pioneering Ages in Chaos series – {his system of revision is far
from perfect, however} - was to have exposed the so-called ‘Dark Ages’ of
antiquity (c. 1200-700 BC) as being an artificial padding to enable for an
over-extended (Sothic-based) Egyptian chronology to harmonise with the shorter
Greek (and other) chronologies.
[End of quote]
The one whom I regard as the basic matrix for
Mohammed, the character Job = Tobias, was a man of considerable importance and
influence, as was his family important. I have recently completed the following
series on his father, Tobit, as the highest of officials during the reign of
the neo-Assyrian king, Shalmaneser:
Tobit a High Official in
Realm of Assyria. Part One: “King Shalmaneser”
And one has only to read Job 29 to learn of the son
of Tobit’s un-matched judicial status.
His very long life, spanning 140 years according
to Job 42:16 (various 100+ ages are given for him in the Book of Tobit), saw
much of neo-Assyrian history, at least from Sennacherib right down to the Fall
of Nineveh over which he is said to have rejoiced (Tobit 14:15).
With this in mind, I have speculated that the
prophet Nahum, who likewise rejoiced over the Fall of Nineveh, was this very
same Tobias/Job:
Prophet Nahum as
Tobias-Job Comforted
Prophet Nahum as
Tobias-Job Comforted. Part Two: Elkosh.
Now, it is interesting in connection with our
multiple Nehemiahs that: “The name
Nahum [נַחוּם] is the shortened form of Nehemiah [נְחֶמְיָה]”.
“Nahum”
means “comfort[ed”; Nehemiah means “comfort[ed of Yahweh”.
(Curiously,
“Nahum” is not entirely unlike “Mahum-mad”, a variant of Mohammed).
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